Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon indicted on perjury, theft charges -- baltimoresun.com: "Baltimore Mayor Sheila A. Dixon was charged today by the state prosecutor in a 12-count indictment.
Dixon was charged with four counts of perjury and two counts of theft over $500, as well as theft under $500, fraudulent misappropriation by a fiduciary and misconduct in office. The charges stem in part from gifts she received from former boyfriend and developer Ronald H. Lipscomb, who was also charged earlier this week.
A grand jury indicted Dixon on 12 counts, including four counts of perjury and two counts of theft over $500. She was also charged with theft under $500, fraudulent misappropriation by a fiduciary and misconduct in office.
Dixon, a Democrat, has been the target of a nearly three-year probe by State Prosecutor Robert A. Rohrbaugh into corruption at City Hall, an investigation that has centered on allegations that Dixon has used her office to award lucrative contracts to various people including her sister, her then-boyfriend and her former campaign chairman."
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This non-Illinois public official indictment interlude is brought to you by a vigorous local prosecutor.
3 comments:
I don't think it is brought to us by the US Attorney's Office, unless you mean the Chicago office's remarkable quiescence over the past few weeks. The feds investigated Dixon for a while and couldn't come up with anything. The state prosecutor then decided to get involved, and this is what he's come up with.
I stand corrected. I made an Illinois-based assumption. Here in Illinois the county State's Attorneys and the state Attorney General's office never do anything about corruption. Only the US Attorney will do it, and sometimes even they won't. Former Governor George Ryan was given a clean bill of health by former US Attorney Scott Lazar. After Clinton left the presidency and Bush took over, Lazar departed and was replaced by Patrick Fitzgerald, who prosecuted Ryan and sent him to prison. Now he is after Governor Blagojevich, a thoroughly reprehensible crook who thinks he can get away with anything. I don't know how the Dixon case will play out, but it is interesting that a state prosecutor is more aggressive on the case than the feds.
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